Status Feedback – Establishing an Infinite Loop

It’s now possible to update your status in all sorts of places (Facebook, Plaxo, Twitter, etc.) and for that status to be fed through to all sorts of other places (Facebook, Plaxo, Twitter, etc.).

Just wondering, when will we start to see feedback type conditions where people create for themselves an infinite loop which they can’t break out of.

I’ve not actually worked through whether all of the pieces are in place yet, but they can’t be far off.

On a slightly more serious note – I’m already starting to find it tedious when I get told in more than one feed about exactly the same event. Some people have a configuration similar to this:

• Someone writes a blog.
• This event get’s written into their RSS feed.
• It also gets written into their Twitter feed.
• It also gets written into their Facebook status.
• Is also gets written into their Plaxo Pulse twice, once for the actual blog  update and again for the Twitter update.

I think you get where I’m going here, and I think it’s actually worse than that in some situations.

As I said the other day it’s all very interesting, but the user experience has still got a long way to go.